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The Emergence

The Emergence

By J. Paul Duplantis

Welcome to The Emergence. A podcast of essays, commentary, and conversations on the failed state of a highly centralized and manipulative web and ideas on how to reverse this course to create a future web where the user is in control outside the influence of outside interests.

Whether it is through the lens of technology, politics, ideologies, philosophies, social orders, or interpersonal relationships, The Emergence will dig deep to find answers to inspire the building of a connection more representative of the user.

Contact: TheEmergenceio@gmail.com
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Final Episode

Final Episode

Welcome to the final episode of The Emergence podcast.

Host, J. Paul Duplantis discusses his reasons for ending the Emergence Podcast and his wish for open source technologists and funders to rise to the challenge of building communication technology to drive purpose more than profit.

May 18, 202209:09
We Have a Communication Problem

We Have a Communication Problem

Watch this episode on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M78dAio2Glo&t=19s

Introductory episode for The Emergence Podcast series of videos exploring the potential of open source communication technologies funded by not for profit interests. This introductory video will be followed by a series of challenges looking throughout all aspects of society where open source technologies funded by not for profit interests could make a positive impact.  

From civic engagement to social interactions, entertainment, learning, productivity, mindfulness, collaboration, health, and philanthropy, what tools could  be built where the quality of the experiences are prioritized over the potential of profit?   What tools are already built? What methodologies speak to this? Where is the talent building these tools? What are the use cases for such technology to exist? Where are the funders to build these technologies where profit takes a backseat to favorably impacting people and the communities they engage with? 

Every challenge in this series will look to  answer these questions by aligning a potential use case with resources to help make it possible.

Contact paulduplantis@gmail.com for ideas and resources for future challenges.



Mar 16, 202210:25
Communication Breakdown and The Marginalized Consumer

Communication Breakdown and The Marginalized Consumer

Join the Emergence for a commentary on The Marginalized Consumer and how the profit motive in the building of communication tools is fracturing the free market.

In this episode, the question is asked if communication technology is responsible for inquiry and feedback between consumers and providers, is it healthy for society when the tools for communication are built for the profit of the provider of the tools over the interests of the people using the tools. Where people who are consumers, employees, managers, executives, owners of businesses, and representatives of government are influenced by how these tools engage their interests around information, goods, and services.

When this exchange is created and managed by companies for profit, wouldn’t it stand to reason the tools would be built to benefit the bottom line of the provider of the tools rather than the people using the tools? Wouldn’t this result in a framework of communication threaded throughout society optimized for a profit motive over a people motive? Is this healthy for society?

What if quality of engagement was at the heart of communication tools built in the future funded by philanthropic sources focused on building open source, non exclusive communication tools optimized for a return on interaction over a return on investment? What is possible when consumer and stakeholder engagement around information, goods, and services were moved from the periphery as being driven by the market to being drivers of the market?

Listen to this episode to learn more.

Sep 09, 202130:35
Discussing Worker Co-ops with ASU Post Doctoral Assocaite Nigel Forrest
Aug 19, 202159:22
Exploring the Value of Labor with Carlos Castro
Aug 04, 202101:42:55
Why discovery should not be exclusive to distribution

Why discovery should not be exclusive to distribution

Join the Emergence for a commentary from host J. Paul Duplantis on why discovery should not be exclusive to distribution. When Amazon accounts for 50% of all online purchases, should they hold exclusive domain over the discovery of what is effectively public information? When Google is responsible for 87% of all online searches, should they hold exclusive domain over discovery of the public data they collect? These and many more questions are explored in this evolving search for a less influenced and more free market.

Jul 27, 202127:32
Augmented and Virtual Reality with Rami Kalla from Point in Time Studios
Jul 20, 202133:56
The Information Trap
Jul 07, 202122:23
Awakening the Soul of Power ~ A conversation with author Christian de la Huerta
Jun 10, 202159:16
The Tunable Web
May 26, 202130:39
Homelessness, Technology, Awareness, and Understanding
Mar 29, 202122:40
Common Sense by Thomas Paine

Common Sense by Thomas Paine

I recorded this song 2 years ago over a wikiloop drum track with my Guitar and Bass along with excerpts of a narration by Bob Neufeld from a Librivox recording of Thomas Paines’s Common Sense. The writing behind Paine’s Common Sense was instrumental in lighting the spark behind the American Revolution. It is my belief these excerpts speak to the potential of a truly democratic society of which communication technology should serve. A potential wavering as technology continues to serve the interests of government and business more than the people represented.

The Mission of The Emergence is to uncover innovations and ideas around communication technologies to better serve this potential. I see this interpretation of Thomas Paine’s words as a means to remind technologists, politicians, and technology users of the importance of the democratic values of liberty, equality, and justice.

The entire Librivox recording with Bob Neufeld’s narration of Common Sense can be found here.

http://librivox.org/common-sense-by-thomas-paine-2/

Drum tracks provided by

http://www.wikiloops.com/backingtrack-jam-631.php

Bass loaned to me by Michael Shadel. Thanks Michael. You are a true friend!

Excerpts

“Common Sense by Thomas Paine”

“Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor.”

“As a long and violent abuse of power is generally the means of calling the right of it in question.”

“The cause of America, is in a great measure the cause of all mankind.”

“And through which, the principals of all lovers of mankind are affected.”

“Philadelphia, February 14th, 1776.”

“Some writers have so confounded society with government as to leave little or no distinction between them.”

“A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of customs.”

“And this remissness will point out the necessity of establishing some form of government to supply the defect of moral virtue.”

Feb 22, 202103:40
The Emergence Mission

The Emergence Mission

Episode 14 | Brief essay (under 4 minutes) on the Mission of The Emergence Podcast to set the table for conversations, essays, and commentaries to come.  What is at the core of The Emergence? To surface people, ideas, innovations, and efforts from communities into public consciousness from what is swimming underneath.  To help bring more capabilities and diverse interests into the market and into society from a broader swath of people to strengthen the core of what makes up the human experience.

TOPICS COVERED

User Data Rights

Decrease Societal Costs

Increase Societal Health

Better balance between people, business, and government.

Feb 16, 202103:46
Free Market Parity through Decentralization
Feb 10, 202133:45
The Emergent Web
Feb 09, 202123:16
Exploring the Potential of Connected Communities

Exploring the Potential of Connected Communities

Episode 11 | Stream of thought episode on what is possible when we move our focus toward building a better connection between people, resources, and commerce within our local and virtual communities. To focus on the potential of labor, small businesses, the arts, science, and people in the communities we engage with. To find and inspire people building tools and rendering systems of thought around the notion of tapping into human potential. Connecting these resources at the community level rather than only the institutional level will help grow a stronger core is the argument found in this episode. TOPICS COVERED Worker Coops Elon Musk Tesla Stock Douglas Engelbart Bootstrapping Small Business Renaissance Community Engagement Open Source Software

Jan 17, 202138:14
Building Trust and Community on the Web with Sebastiaan van der Lans

Building Trust and Community on the Web with Sebastiaan van der Lans

Episode 10 | In this episode, I bring on Sebastiaan van der Lans who is looking to harness blockchain and open source technologies to infuse trust and community into the connection. Sebastiaan is the founder of the Van Ons, Netherlands largest wordpress digital agency and Wordproof, a timestamp blockchain technology revolutionizing the notion of how we verify content on the web. 

TOPICS *Fight for a trustworthy web *Wordpress is responsible for 39% of all websites *The future is in open source technologies and communities *Stakeholders are lost in building technology for profit over purpose *Wordpress and blockchain *The Internet has a deep-rooted issue which is trust *The Internet should offer transparency and accountability *Blockchain and Timestamping *Worker Proposal System *European Commission's Blockchains for Social Good initiative *What will open source technologies look like in 2025? 

CITATIONS Sebastiaan van der Lans on Twitter https://twitter.com/delans (https://twitter.com/delans) https://wordproof.com/ (https://wordproof.com/) EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: In conversation with Sebastiaan van der Lans at WCEU2019 https://youtu.be/Z5XpJDldsVQ (https://youtu.be/Z5XpJDldsVQ) WordProof: Let's fix the broken web, together! Interview with Sebastiaan van der Lans. Ep. 24 https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/2fkbi5Z765MQ66Yx8 (https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/2fkbi5Z765MQ66Yx8) A Story about the Truly Inclusive Funding of Open Source WordPress Plugin “WordProof” https://medium.com/@delans/inclusive-funding-open-source-software-wordproof-wordpress-blockchain-ab4b2c2385b5 (https://medium.com/@delans/inclusive-funding-open-source-software-wordproof-wordpress-blockchain-ab4b2c2385b5) Kinsta Kingpin: Interview with Sebastiaan van der Lans https://kinsta.com/blog/interview-with-sebastiaan-van-der-lans/ (https://kinsta.com/blog/interview-with-sebastiaan-van-der-lans/)

Jan 04, 202152:22
Exploring the Connection and Human Potential with Tim McLain

Exploring the Connection and Human Potential with Tim McLain

Episode 9 | On this episode I bring on my good friend Tim McLain to discuss the role and future of the connection as it relates to discovery and how it could provide fuel to tap into human potential. Tim has a background in Technology, Art, and Music and over the last 15 years, we have been working on and discussing the toolset to help light the spark to ignite more purpose in the human condition. 

Check out Tim's band Drug Money. https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_descriptionandv=qkJtWLdcneEandq=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fpg%2Fdrugmoneyband%2Fvideos%2Fandredir_token=QUFFLUhqbEVmeE5ra2RQMFZQejQwUkw1LTRCT3BfMnNQQXxBQ3Jtc0trNGRYbHJNNGxROEd6dTQyWFBzMDZaelp4TV8tTUFDbFNUYjNYNXdmaFcyblhTd0xwRjdJeFdNX19aWlpYcXUzZzBuMXdOOFpKZ19fbUQ3STRCbExHWmFma3dlalZGY3p4NVVkUWdCWWtzNXA4Vzh3MA%3D%3D (https://www.facebook.com/pg/drugmoney...) 

Topics covered. 

Sublinked in Youtube stream below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkJtWLdcneEandt=0s (0:00) Introduction https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkJtWLdcneEandt=166s (2:46) Tim McLain introduced https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkJtWLdcneEandt=385s (6:25) That is part of the human condition. We only have so much time to make so much money to have quality of life https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkJtWLdcneEandt=440s (7:20) Are we supposed to have quantity of life or quality-of-life. And who is directing it? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkJtWLdcneEandt=600s (10:00) in some ways it has taken away motivation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkJtWLdcneEandt=730s (12:10) it seems like the expectation of the quantity from the provider is stepping on the quality of the potential of the stakeholder https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkJtWLdcneEandt=900s (15:00) Tim Berners Lee frustrated with where the web is going https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkJtWLdcneEandt=925s (15:25) Mark Nadal - Peer to Peer vs. Domain connection https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkJtWLdcneEandt=1250s (20:50) The utopian vision. Theoretical vs. Practical https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkJtWLdcneEandt=1296s (21:36) Google removing information https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkJtWLdcneEandt=1383s (23:03) Javier Livas Cantu - Cybernetics and Centralized Control https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkJtWLdcneEandt=1418s (23:38) I would like to see technology developed that is more community based https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkJtWLdcneEandt=1736s (28:56) Would like to have a Marxist, a Capitalist, and an Anarcho Syndicalist on the show https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkJtWLdcneEandt=1812s (30:12) Dougals Engelbart and the death of his NLS System in favor of the localized PC. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkJtWLdcneEandt=2095s (34:55) - Technology cannot replace the real world. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkJtWLdcneEandt=2170s (36:10) Why not have our own personalized algorithms that we can tune. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkJtWLdcneEandt=2510s (41:50) It shouldn’t always be about what you like. It should be about what you need to see. What you need to learn. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkJtWLdcneEandt=2551s (42:31) Word Explorer - a tool to help people discover movies that will move them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkJtWLdcneEandt=2854s (47:34) Fed information that keeps them from addressing that shadow self as Jung called it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkJtWLdcneEandt=2900s (48:20) If we want to have better information sorry we are going to want to do a little more work. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkJtWLdcneEandt=2924s (48:44) Police reform and George Floyd https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkJtWLdcneEandt=3028s (50:28) When the police aren't aligned with the communities, what is going to happen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkJtWLdcneEandt=3280s (54:40) And for the community member to have more respect for what the the police officer has to go through....

Dec 25, 202001:21:20
Building a Better Future through a Decentralized Connection with GunDB Founder Mark Nadal

Building a Better Future through a Decentralized Connection with GunDB Founder Mark Nadal

Episode 8 | Join J. Paul Duplantis and Mark Nadal on a 2 hour deep dive into Mark’s work with ERA, Inc and his GunDB framework to help build a better future through a peer to peer decentralized connection.

Topics covered:

*Gun DB
*AXE (Advanced Exchange Equation) Algorithm
*New Economic models beyond Capitalism and Socialism
*Freeism
*Building a new type of connection through browser extensions 
*D.Tube Meething Video Conferencing
*The Marginalized Consumer
*Mark Benioff (Salesforce) Tim Draper (Draper Associates) Mozilla

Citations:

Freeism https://hackernoon.com/wealth-a-new-era-of-economics-ce8acd785441 

The AXE (Advanced Exchange Equation) Algorithm https://gun.eco/docs/AXE

Meething Video Conferencing https://www.zdnet.com/article/era-hatches-meething-an-open-source-browser-based-video-conferencing-system/ 

Regulating Monopolies, Open Sourcing Uber, and Dreaming Big with Mark Nadal https://youtu.be/0VeABkfCHqk (https://youtu.be/0VeABkfCHqk

Opt out of Money for Fun and Profit - Presentation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HJdrBk3BlE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HJdrBk3BlE

Pomp Podcast https://youtu.be/gB72Cu4BzGg (https://youtu.be/gB72Cu4BzGg

Dec 08, 202002:02:08
A Conversation with Cybernetician Javier Livas Cantu

A Conversation with Cybernetician Javier Livas Cantu

Episode 7 | A conversation between The Emergence host J. Paul Duplantis and Cybernetician Javier Livas Cantu on the role Cybernetics could play in emerging people more resonantly into society. Topics covered: *The role of Cybernetics within systems of Politics, Economics, Government, and Labor. *Stafford Beer’s Cybersyn project in Chile from the early 1970s. *How Cybernetics may be incorporated into future technologies such as Tim Berners Lee’s Solid Framework, Ben Goertzel’s Decentralized Artificial Intelligence, and Vivienne Ming’s Socos Labs. *The Shareholder Myth *Requisite Variety Javier Livas Cantu Youtube Channel https://www.youtube.com/c/JavierLivasCantu/videos (https://www.youtube.com/c/JavierLivasCantu/videos) Videos discussed in episode INTRODUCTION TO LAW, THE CYBERNETIC WAY (V2.0) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASfODwo96tsandt=4168s (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASfODwo96tsandt=4168s) DEFUND OR DEFEND? Cybernetic analysis of the Police function https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rQATm7zs9o (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rQATm7zs9o) TAMING CAPITALISM and WALL St., The legacy of Lynn A. Stout https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=423uKZabmV4 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=423uKZabmV4) MARXIST VS CYBERNETICIAN (Richard Wolff vs. Javier Livas) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUj3-1FlXKEandt=18s (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUj3-1FlXKEandt=18s) THE EMERGENT LIE (How democratic representative government is being distorted) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orzM5jnrHLwandt=17s (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orzM5jnrHLwandt=17s) Lynn A. Stout | The Shareholder Value Myth PDF https://poseidon01.ssrn.com/delivery.php?ID=632004121085075100125089024065067031022009008003061029091075106119120093102023064111029005054040005038115074124097028020082127042061046087007099000102100124104088096026093073086064089105071067082085092101000095116092110123094026095026066104077024102024andEXT=pdf (https://poseidon01.ssrn.com/delivery.php?ID=632004121085075100125089024065067031022009008003061029091075106119120093102023064111029005054040005038115074124097028020082127042061046087007099000102100124104088096026093073086064089105071067082085092101000095116092110123094026095026066104077024102024andEXT=pdf) Cybernetics Macy Conference https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macy_conferences (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macy_conferences)

Nov 30, 202001:11:54
Exploring Human Potential

Exploring Human Potential

Episode 6 | Join host J. Paul Duplantis as he discusses Exploring Human Potential while standing next to the Verde River in Cottonwood, Arizona. Asking the questions..... Is the free market truly exercising the potential of labor? What could technology do to tap into this potential? What barriers are in place limiting the flow of this potential between people, business, and governments? Links- Vivienne Ming Socos Labs - https://socos.org/

Nov 23, 202029:35
Technology, Direct Democracy, and Lost Potential of a Truly Engaged Electorate

Technology, Direct Democracy, and Lost Potential of a Truly Engaged Electorate

Episode 5 | Essay and correspondence with Tim Berners Lee's Solid Framework team on the possibility of using Solid PODS to inspire Direct Democracy. Solid Framework Study for Flanders, Belgium - https://ruben.verborgh.org/publications/buyle_egose_2019/

Nov 03, 202017:42
The Future of Work

The Future of Work

Episode 4 | The Emergence host J. Paul Duplantis riffs on ideas on the Future of Work as he walks through the streets of Downtown Phoenix, AZ. He poses the question of what happens when technology replaces human labor while the cost of acquiring skills continues to increase dramatically.

Oct 01, 202024:24
Time to Clean Up the American Presidential Debates

Time to Clean Up the American Presidential Debates

Episode 3 |The Emergence host J. Paul Duplantis reads his essay on ideas for and the importance of cleaning up American Presidential debates.

Oct 01, 202008:22
Awareness & Context

Awareness & Context

Episode 2 | The Emergence host, J. Paul Duplantis riffs on ideas on the importance of building decentralized communication technologies to increase awareness and context amongst users in the discovery of information.

Oct 01, 202022:40
Introduction to The Emergence

Introduction to The Emergence

Episode 1 | What is possible when we are connected and in control is the question asked in this introduction to The Emergence podcast hosted by J. Paul Duplantis who paints the picture of a world heavily influenced by centralized forces controlling the flow of information but at the same time identifies a path forward to reverse these trends by securing user data rights, building frameworks to securely manage user data, harness the potential of decentralized AI, and to create an emergent application layer to tap into the potential of a connected user base. A setup to inspire conversations and commentary on future episodes with innovative thinkers to help build a more purposeful connection between people, businesses, and governments.

Youtube Sublinking Full Podcast - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaVY6zlfYNQ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaVY6zlfYNQ) Opening statement - https://youtu.be/uaVY6zlfYNQ?t=60 (https://youtu.be/uaVY6zlfYNQ?t=60) The Tools - https://youtu.be/uaVY6zlfYNQ?t=946 (https://youtu.be/uaVY6zlfYNQ?t=946) >Number 1: User Data Rights - https://youtu.be/uaVY6zlfYNQ?t=981 (https://youtu.be/uaVY6zlfYNQ?t=981) >Number 2: The Frameworks - https://youtu.be/uaVY6zlfYNQ?t=1076 (https://youtu.be/uaVY6zlfYNQ?t=1076) >Number 3: The AI Layer - https://youtu.be/uaVY6zlfYNQ?t=1775 (https://youtu.be/uaVY6zlfYNQ?t=1775) >Number 4: The Application Layer - https://youtu.be/uaVY6zlfYNQ?t=2069 (https://youtu.be/uaVY6zlfYNQ?t=2069) >>Training and Therapy Applications - https://youtu.be/uaVY6zlfYNQ?t=2997 (https://youtu.be/uaVY6zlfYNQ?t=2997) >>Collaboration Applications - https://youtu.be/uaVY6zlfYNQ?t=3504 (https://youtu.be/uaVY6zlfYNQ?t=3504) >>Information Discovery Applications - https://youtu.be/uaVY6zlfYNQ?t=3775 (https://youtu.be/uaVY6zlfYNQ?t=3775) What If the Status Quo - https://youtu.be/uaVY6zlfYNQ?t=4793 (https://youtu.be/uaVY6zlfYNQ?t=4793) History - https://youtu.be/uaVY6zlfYNQ?t=4927 (https://youtu.be/uaVY6zlfYNQ?t=4927) We are Divided - https://youtu.be/uaVY6zlfYNQ?t=5035 (https://youtu.be/uaVY6zlfYNQ?t=5035) In Conclusion - https://youtu.be/uaVY6zlfYNQ?t=5493 (https://youtu.be/uaVY6zlfYNQ?t=5493)

Oct 01, 202001:36:07